Craiglockhart Paige and Colleen
History:
Craiglockhart in located south west on Edinburgh, Scotland in a partly wooded area. Craiglockhart means "Rock of the High Loch." In 1977, it started to be a hydropathic institute and between 1916-1919, it was a military physchiatric hospital. It was owned by the Craiglockhart Hydropathic Companybefore World War One. Hydropathic therapy is water therapy. Craiglockhart became used as a physiciatic hospital for victims of war showing symptoms of shell-shock. It later turned into a theological school, and then Napier College.
Over the course of Craiglockhart being a war hospital, some 1700 shell-shocked soldiers were treated. The average treatment time ranged form two to four months and afterwards officers were often sent back to the lines as active duty men. Reasons for admission to Craiglockhart include, hysteria, with symptoms as severe as paralysis, neurasthenia, or shell shock, and gas poisoning.
Best Known Doctors:
W.H. Rivers was one of the psychoanalysis doctors who worked at Craiglockhart using his experimental theories to try to cure patients.
Famous Patients:
Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen who were both famous war poets were treated here as shell-shocked officers.
It was here that Owen has said that the had to face the “phantoms of this mind” and utilize them in poetry, which helped him to get over his problem.
Relation to Regeneration: "Now, on the train going to Craiglockhart, it still seemed the hardest thing." (6). This was the first place that Craiglockhart was mentioned in the book, and it is when Sassoon is first heading there. Studying Craiglockhart doesn't really give insight into any particular character but gives a better understanding of the setting. By understanding the setting we are able to better understand the place that these soldiers lived in and were treated in, and how maybe that could have affected them. Through Craiglockhart, in the book, we are able to get a better understanding of the war, as this is where the patients confess much of what had been plaguing them.
History:
Craiglockhart in located south west on Edinburgh, Scotland in a partly wooded area. Craiglockhart means "Rock of the High Loch." In 1977, it started to be a hydropathic institute and between 1916-1919, it was a military physchiatric hospital. It was owned by the Craiglockhart Hydropathic Company before World War One. Hydropathic therapy is water therapy. Craiglockhart became used as a physiciatic hospital for victims of war showing symptoms of shell-shock. It later turned into a theological school, and then Napier College.
Over the course of Craiglockhart being a war hospital, some 1700 shell-shocked soldiers were treated. The average treatment time ranged form two to four months and afterwards officers were often sent back to the lines as active duty men. Reasons for admission to Craiglockhart include, hysteria, with symptoms as severe as paralysis, neurasthenia, or shell shock, and gas poisoning.
Best Known Doctors:
W.H. Rivers was one of the psychoanalysis doctors who worked at Craiglockhart using his experimental theories to try to cure patients.
Famous Patients:
Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen who were both famous war poets were treated here as shell-shocked officers.
It was here that Owen has said that the had to face the “phantoms of this mind” and utilize them in poetry, which helped him to get over his problem.
Relation to Regeneration:
"Now, on the train going to Craiglockhart, it still seemed the hardest thing." (6). This was the first place that Craiglockhart was mentioned in the book, and it is when Sassoon is first heading there. Studying Craiglockhart doesn't really give insight into any particular character but gives a better understanding of the setting. By understanding the setting we are able to better understand the place that these soldiers lived in and were treated in, and how maybe that could have affected them. Through Craiglockhart, in the book, we are able to get a better understanding of the war, as this is where the patients confess much of what had been plaguing them.
Works Cited:
"Craiglockhart Hydropathic: Facts, Discussion Forum, and Encyclopedia Article." AbsoluteAstronomy.com. <http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Craiglockhart_Hydropathic>. 1 Apr. 2009.
"Psychiatric therapies - admissions." The War Poets at Craiglockhart . <sites.scran.ac.uk/Warp/Therapy.htm>. 1 Apr. 2009.
"Craiglockhart Hydropathic." Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. 26 Mar. 2009. <en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craiglockhart_Hydropathichttp> 1 Apr. 2009.
"Craiglockhart - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia." Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craiglockhart>.1 Apr. 2009.
Pictures:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Craiglockhart_Hydropathic_main_view.JPG
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwone/wilfred_owen_gallery_06.shtml